“She was saying her chest hurt and what’s wrong with Dad? Even laying there like that, she was worried about Dad,” the couple’s son, Dennis Yeager, told ABCNews.com. “And his back was hurting and he was asking about Mom.”

As the couple’s condition deteriorated, they were moved into a room together and put into beds side-by-side so they could hold hands. Gordon, 94, passed away at 3:38 p.m. — but what appeared on his monitor shocked his family.

The loving couple’s obituary lists survivors as 14 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild in addition to their own children.

“Grandpa and I were talking this summer about all of the people getting divorced for this reason or that and he mentioned that nobody stays together anymore,” their grandson, Randy Yeager, wrote to ABCNews.com in an e-mail.

Gordon and Norma were placed in a casket together, holding hands, and will be cremated with their ashes mixed before the burial.

“All their life has been together,” Donna said. “So, when it came to the funeral home, the family asked, ‘Can we have them put in the casket together holding hands?’ Because that’s the way their life was.”